Rotten Reporting — The media's coverage of Apple bites. Here's why. — For the past six months Steve Jobs has been looking terribly ill. But only this week did Apple finally acknowledge that Jobs isn't doing well, when the company announced that Jobs would take a leave for six months.

First U.S. CTO May Be Indian — President-elect Obama has narrowed his choices for the top technology job to two people, both born in India — Two Indian-born technology executives are the leading candidates for the incoming Obama Administration's newly created position …

EU leans towards Opera in Microsoft antitrust probe — Microsoft said this morning that the European Commission had issued a statement saying that its “preliminary view” was that the inclusion of Internet Explorer in its operating systems violated European aw.

Kogan Agora to be delayed — I'm disappointed to have to tell you that the Kogan Agora has to be delayed indefinitely. — This delay comes due to potential future interoperability issues. — The Agora did reach a very late stage of development. Manufacturing had commenced and it was a matter of days from being shipped to you.

Change and Opportunity — Challenging economic times force all of us to focus. At FM, our focus, now more than ever, is on what we do best - create media experiences that are valuable to our publishers, their audiences, and our brand marketing partners. — Given our journalistic heritage …

Watch The Obama Inauguration From Your iPhone With Ustream — John Ham, the cofounder and CEO of live video streaming site Ustream, stopped by this afternoon to show me their newest stuff - a yet-to-be-released application that lets users watch live streams from the service on their iPhone.

The Little App Store That Could... About six weeks ago, after reading the fine print on an Apple Inc. [AAPL Loading... () ] ad for its online applications download store, the App Store, I noticed some pretty stunning numbers: that Apple customers had downloaded 200 million apps since …

AMD to trim 1,100 jobs, initiate temporary pay cuts — Updated at 10:12 a.m. PST, with more information about AMD's financial performance. — Advanced Micro Devices announced Friday it would slash its workforce by 9 percent and institute temporary salary cuts, from its executive chairman on down to hourly workers.

Why Obama's cell phone calls will always go through — After Barack Obama is sworn in next week, he'll be able to enjoy one of the lesser-known benefits of the presidency: phone calls that always go through. — That means no more “all circuits are busy” messages.

Microsoft moves Live Mesh under Windows chief Sinofsky — Microsoft still hasn't gone public with rumored layoffs that many are expecting to happen in the next week or so. But it is doing what many expected: Rejiggering groups within various organizations as a way to tighten up the company.

Calculating the Size of the Downadup Outbreak — The number of Downadup infections are skyrocketing based on our calculations. From an estimated 2.4 million infected machines to over 8.9 million during the last four days. That's just amazing. — We've received a number of queries …

Obama Supports Postponing DTV — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration would support a proposal in Congress to delay the nation's scheduled transition to digital-only television to June, transition co-chairman John Podesta said in a letter to Congress Friday.

Another GP Parting Ways with Sequoia — Last year, we reported that Pierre Lamond is quietly segueing out of Sequoia Capital. Turns out that Mark Stevens, a partner at the firm since 1989, is also transitioning slowly out of the firm, he told me earlier today. — “I'm still on the boards of a handful of companies.

IBM Could Feel The Pinch — The computing giant is expected to report its first dip in revenues since the beginning of the recession. — While most tech companies started seeing declining sales last year, IBM bravely turned in quarter after quarter of revenue growth.

Why Don't Google & Yahoo Offer Twitter Search? — Yesterday, we got a new news search engine which taps into Twitter that Yahoo's excited about, as it uses their BOSS system. That kind of annoyed me. Why didn't Yahoo just build the service themselves? Or a regular Twitter search service, for that matter?

Statshot: More Than 10 Million Wiis Sold in 2008 — Despite my addiction to The Age of Empires (and the rest of the franchise), I'm not much of a gamer. Nevertheless, last year a friend of mine let me borrow his Nintendo Wii and after a couple of hours spent playing some of its simpler games, I was hooked.

An Online Farmers Market — The local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now, thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. — A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online farmers market where small, artisan food producers and growers can sell their products.

UK.gov ‘to create anti-net piracy agency’ — ‘Rights Agency’ and new regulations to hit P2P infringement — Following its failure to foster voluntary solution between ISPs and rights holders, the government will create a new agency and regulations to clamp down on copyright infringement via peer …

Microsoft CEO, Yahoo Chairman Meet in New York — So much for a new boss ending Yahoo's drama. Why did the company's chairman meet Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at the Time Warner Center Thursday, two days after Yahoo named Carol Bartz its new CEO? — A tipster reports spotting the two:

Poor eyesight ‘makes HDTV a waste of money’ … It's a revolutionary technology that enhances television images so effectively viewers can pick up the tiniest detail in stunning clarity. — But many consumers are wasting hundreds of pounds on high-definition equipment because their eyes …